Chronology based on scores of articles in The Denver Post beginning on Dec. 27, 1997, the day after JonBenet Ramsey’s death in her Boulder home.

1977 – Patsy Ramsey named Miss West Virginia.

1990: Aug. 6 – JonBenet Patricia Ramsey is born in Atlanta.

1991 – The Ramseys move from Atlanta to Boulder.

1995 – JonBenet Ramsey crowned Little Miss Colorado

1996 – JonBenet wins America’s Tiny Little Miss contest

Dec. 26: 5:52 a.m. – Patsy Ramsey calls 911 from her 15-bedroom, brick, Tudor-style home at 755 15th Street to report that her 6-year-old daughter JonBenet Ramsey, a student at Martin Park Elementary School, had been abducted. Someone had left a ransom note on a back stair case leading from the kitchen to the parents’ third floor bedroom demanding $118,000.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.